How Are Your Major Gift Fundraising Results?
At Veritus, our team has a Slack channel called “Celebrations.” If I’m ever feeling down, I go in there and it revives my spirit. Why? Because in that celebration channel are phenomenal stories that our team has posted on the amazing results our clients are getting. I...
Patience is Revolutionary
Everything is full speed ahead. At least it feels that way. You know how they say as you get older time seems to go faster? When you’re a kid, summer seems to last forever. Now, at age 59, summer, to me, goes by way too fast. Our culture is either leading this effort...
It’s Not About You
I was recently talking to the CEO of a large non-profit. She was very frustrated with her major gift manager because he could not, in her words “get his frontline fundraisers to manage their interactions with donors in the right way.” I pressed for more information....
Fundraising Results on the Decline? It’s Time to Examine Your Paradigm
Today’s guest blog post was written by Diana Frazier, Senior Client Experience Leader at Veritus Group. One of the New York Times commentators I read regularly brought up the term “paradigm blindness.” He was using it in a discussion on the deep political divide...
It’s Time to Change Your View of Volunteers
The subject of volunteers in the non-profit fundraising, marketing, and communication sector has been an interesting and troubling journey over my last 45+ years of doing this work. Interesting in that there has been a huge volume of volunteer talent that has been...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
